Question on shared drives and folder layout

[dragoonkain]

Right off the bat, fantastic work Shagrath, cheers!

I have done some searching on this topic, but alas found nothing. (Forgive me if it has already been posted)

I am using PMS 1.20, P4 2.8, 1GB DDR400, Wired 100MBit Full, Windows XP SP3, PMS Installed as a service.

I have another PC on my network that I would like to stream files from, but I cannot seem to get PMS to pick up the folders. (I have tried restarting PMS service and PS3, after changes were made)

I have tried UNC paths over the network directly from PMS: \\computername\Movies Continued (PMS displays nothing)

and I have mapped the root folder as a drive on my media pc: x:\ and shared this in PMS x:\Movies Continued (PMS displays nothing)

I have also shared the mapped drive x:\ in PMS (PMS displays nothing)

Am I missing something in my setup, either on PC, PMS or PS3, or is it a limitation?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

[meskibob]

Other people have been able to successfully use networked storage devices as sources for their media, so something is probably messed up on your end. Post the PMS debug.log after trying to browse the drive in the PS3's XMB, as well as screenshots of your PMS share settings and your My Computer setup for the drive.

[dragoonkain]

Thanks for the response meskibob, however, after reading that some people were having issues with the service, I removed it, reinstalled java and PMS from scratch, did not install the service and lo and behold it works like a charm.

Thanks again for the help!

Cheers.

[mgideon]

So what finally worked? UNC or a mapped drive? I'm thinking about getting one of the newer external hardrives that you can put an IP address on. I guess then you could map a drive letter to it from your pc and use that drive letter in the PS3MS interface......

Anyone tried this yet?

[meskibob]

So what finally worked? UNC or a mapped drive? I'm thinking about getting one of the newer external hardrives that you can put an IP address on. I guess then you could map a drive letter to it from your pc and use that drive letter in the PS3MS interface......

I don't believe PMS accepts UNC addresses, although I haven't personally confirmed this. Mapping the networked drives does work.

[ExSport]

You can use UNC paths without problems, like

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\\servername\share\folder

or

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\\mycomp\d$

etc.

[meskibob]

You can use UNC paths without problems, like

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\\servername\share\folder

or

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\\mycomp\d$

etc.

Good to know. Thanks.

[dragoonkain]

Seems that my issue was with the PMS service, as soon as that was removed both UNC and drive mappings work as they should.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers.